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Media Aesthetics: Image, Text, Sound II

Media Aesthetics: Image, Text, Sound II


Course Code

HUMA 16100 20

Course Description

This course focuses on writing, reading, and signs.

Language is an extraordinarily flexible medium for representing events and experiences-but it also raises distinctive challenges of interpretation, decoding, and translation.

We examine some of these challenges through Plato's Phaedrus, Shakespeare's The Tempest, Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home.

Course Criteria

This course is only open to incoming UChicago transfer students. Please visit the Summer Session Incoming Transfer Students page to apply.

This course must be taken alongside HUMA 16000, Media Aesthetics: Image, Text, Sound I, as well as an afternoon writing course that runs August 3-September 11, 2026 (no class September 7).

Instructor(s)

Tim Campbell

Session

September Term

Course Dates

August 24th - September 11th

Class Days

Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri

Class Time

9:00 am - 11:00 am

Core Course

Part of UChicago Core Curriculum

Modality

In-Person

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    This course focuses on images, imitation, and seeing. Images may seem to simply reflect the real, but they just as often distort or distance viewers from it.

    We explore the strangeness of images through Diego Velasquez's Las Meninas, Plato's Republic, Hitchcock's Vertigo, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye.

    Residential